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enDeepwater Horizon: BP’s Toxic Legacy http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/04/20/deepwater-horizon-bp-s-toxic-legacy
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/BP-Oil-Spill.jpg?itok=J5DnvqaW" width="200" height="134" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It has now been four years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill">killing 11 men and leaking an estimated 210 million gallons</a> of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The media attention has disappeared, but the oil that <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/01/mardi-gras-beads-bands-and-bp-oil">continues to wash up</a> along the Gulf Coast is a constant reminder to those who call this area home of <span class="caps">BP</span>’s toxic legacy.</p>
<p>In spite of the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/what-was-missing-oil-spill-commissions-report">massive evidence of fraud and malfeasance on behalf of <span class="caps">BP</span></a>, Transocean, and Halliburton, only one set of criminal charges was filed in the four years since the disaster. Those charges were filed against <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/ex-bp_engineer_kurt_mix_gets_s.html"><span class="caps">BP</span> engineer Kurt Mix</a>, who has since been found guilty of obstruction of justice for deleting text messages about the true size of the oil leak. However, Mix has yet to be sentenced, and the judge is <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/04/ex-bp_engineer_kurt_mix_gets_s.html">currently weighing a defense motion to dismiss</a> the charges altogether. </p>
<p>The three companies involved — <span class="caps">BP</span>, Transocean, and Halliburton — have <a href="http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/09/19/halliburton-set-to-plead-guilty-to-criminal-charge-in-gulf-oil-spill-case/">paid criminal fines</a> for their actions, money that is <a href="http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/alabama/2014/04/19/four-years-oil-spill-projects-just-beginning/7902141/">supposed to go to states and individuals</a> for the damage they suffered as a result of the spill. But thanks to the dirty tricks employed by <span class="caps">BP</span>, those payments have slowed to a trickle.</p>
<p>Late last year, as their fines and legal payments began to exceed their original expectations, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/26/bp-launches-massive-pr-campaign-demonize-oil-spill-victims"><span class="caps">BP</span> launched a massive <span class="caps">PR</span> blitz</a> to <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/19/bp-attempts-misdirect-public-claims-fraud">demonize “greedy” oil spill victims</a> who were seeking compensation. The oil giant took out <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/26/bp-launches-massive-pr-campaign-demonize-oil-spill-victims">full-page ads in major newspapers</a> like the Washington Post claiming that the spill claims process <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/19/bp-attempts-misdirect-public-claims-fraud">was riddled with fraud</a>, and that the company was being raked over the coals by fraudulent payments. The company <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/10/04/61771.htm">successfully managed to stall payments</a> for a while, with a judge recently <a href="http://wwno.org/post/bp-loses-appeal-payment-process">ordering the company to continue making payments</a>.</p>
<p>But for all of their crying over allegedly unfair payments, <span class="caps">BP</span> has made out like a bandit in the years since the company destroyed the Gulf of Mexico. For starters, they avoided charges of manslaughter for criminal negligence that led to the death of the 11 rig workers. Since the spill, the company has pulled in a <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/bp/financials">net income of $38 billion over the last three years</a>, and was <a href="http://www.fox8live.com/story/24975503/4-years-after-oil-disaster-bp-allowed-to-drill-in-gulf-of-mexico-again">recently granted the ability to resume drilling</a> in the Gulf of Mexico. For <span class="caps">BP</span>, everything has returned to normal.</p>
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<p>While things might be going well for <span class="caps">BP</span>, the vast Gulf ecosystem that their oil poisoned is still suffering. The toxic mix of crude oil and Corexit (the chemical dispersant used to help clean up the spill) has settled to the bottom of the Gulf, disrupting the food chain from the bottom to the top. </p>
<p>To begin with, shrimp and small crustacean <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-years-after-bps-gulf-oil-spill-compensation-battle-rages/">populations have dwindled</a> as a result of the spill, and many of the remaining specimens are <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-years-after-bps-gulf-oil-spill-compensation-battle-rages/">turning up mutated and poisoned</a>. Further up the food chain, <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113124753/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-impact-marine-life-gulf-bp-041814/">bottlenose dolphins have been washing up dead</a> on the shore, and large <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2014/02/fish-suffering-heart-failure-decreased-numbers-due-bp-oil-spill/">predator fish populations have developed heart problems</a> as a direct result of the chemicals from the oil and dispersant. </p>
<p>Coastal ecosystems have not fared much better. As DeSmog's Julie Dermansky pointed out, <a href="http://desmogblog.com/2014/04/17/insect-population-dwindling-louisiana-marshlands-four-years-after-bp-blowout">insect populations in marshlands along the Gulf Coast are falling at alarming rates</a>, disrupting the coastal food chains. </p>
<p><span class="caps">BP</span> is great, victims are still waiting for compensation, and the ecosystem could take decades to recover. But at least the Obama administration has taken the necessary steps to make sure another disaster like this never occurs, right?</p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>In the four years since the blowout, little has changed. In spite of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/opinion/the-deepwater-horizon-threat.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=2">overwhelming cry from federal agencies</a> about the need to enact stricter rules governing offshore drilling, along with their reports that laid out the exact steps to take, the administration has done nothing.</p>
<p>The best critique of the administration’s lack of action <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/opinion/the-deepwater-horizon-threat.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=2">comes from a former administration official, Elizabeth Birnbaum</a>, who served as the director of the Minerals Management Service during the disaster:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">We would never have imagined so little action would be taken to prevent something like this from happening again. But, four years later, the Obama administration still has not taken key steps recommended by its experts and experts it commissioned to increase drilling safety. As a result, we are on a course to repeat our mistakes. Making matters worse, the administration proposes to expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and allow seismic activities harmful to ocean life in the search for new oil reserves.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">Following the spill, the administration promised that it would do what was necessary to make drilling as safe as possible. A presidential commission recommended numerous measures to increase drilling safety. The Coast Guard, the Department of the Interior and the National Academy of Engineering subsequently identified more problems that contributed to the spill. Though some recommendations have been acted upon, including restructuring the regulatory agency that oversees drilling and increasing training and certification for government drilling rig inspectors, threats remain.</p>
<p>But it gets even worse. As <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/opinion/the-deepwater-horizon-threat.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=2">Birnbaum pointed out in her New York Times op-ed</a>, the Obama administration is deliberately ignoring the recommendations of federal reports:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">Administration officials promised an immediate response to the <span class="caps">N.A.E.</span> report, including regulations to set new standards for blowout preventers by the end of 2012. Today, 16 months after that deadline and four years after the blowout, we still have not seen even proposed rules. Deepwater drilling continues in the gulf. New leases are being offered by the government and sold to energy companies each year. Yet the <span class="caps">N.A.E.</span> report warned that a blowout in deep water may not be controllable with current technology.</p>
<p>So far this year, the Obama administration has <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/02/25/gulf-mexico-open-dirty-energy-exploitation">opened up another 112 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for exploitation</a> by the dirty energy industry, making the risk of another Deepwater Horizon disaster a very real possibility. <br /><br />
The fact that the administration has failed to enact any of the safeguards that have been recommended make another disaster more than just a possibility — it is only a matter of time.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1002">bp</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5014">deepwater horizon</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5087">Gulf of Mexico</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/6832">Fish</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/11383">ecosystem</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/6382">Anniversary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2702">obama</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5650">MMS</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/16001">Birnbaum</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/8941">Kurt Mix</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/8942">Criminal Charges</a></div></div></div>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:01:20 +0000Farron Cousins8026 at http://www.desmogblog.comGulf Of Mexico: Open For Dirty Energy Exploitation Againhttp://www.desmogblog.com/2014/02/25/gulf-mexico-open-dirty-energy-exploitation
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/offshore%20drilling.jpg?itok=-kztej0g" width="200" height="150" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It has been nearly four years since <span class="caps">BP</span>’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and neither the dirty energy industry nor politicians in Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.</span> have learned anything from that tragedy. <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2014/02/fish-suffering-heart-failure-decreased-numbers-due-bp-oil-spill/">Even with new evidence</a> showing that the entire ecosystem in the Gulf has been disrupted as a result of the oil spill, companies are about to receive a massive gift in the form of new oil drilling leases.</p>
<p>Both the Interior Department and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (<span class="caps">BOEM</span>) <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html">have agreed to lease 40 million acres</a> of water space in the Gulf of Mexico next month to support President Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy, which is quickly beginning to look more like a “drill, baby, drill” policy. The leases will be good for five years’ worth of exploration in the Gulf.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html">PennEnergy explains</a> the President’s legacy so far with regards to energy production:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">Domestic oil and gas production has grown each year President Obama has been in office, with domestic oil production currently higher than any time in two decades; natural gas production at its highest level ever; and renewable electricity generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources having doubled.</p>
<p>While PennEnergy says that renewable energy use has doubled under Obama, it <a href="http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/energy-overview/renewable-energy/">currently stands at only 9%</a> of total energy consumption, a rather paltry amount when compared to dirty energy consumption.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, the Gulf of Mexico is still reeling from the effects of the 2010 <span class="caps">BP</span> oil disaster. <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2014/02/fish-suffering-heart-failure-decreased-numbers-due-bp-oil-spill/">The latest reports coming from the region</a> show that scientists are finding high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chemicals that are found in crude oil. These chemicals are now making their way up the food chain and <a href="http://www.epa.gov/waste/hazard/wastemin/minimize/factshts/pahs.pdf">causing disruption to cardiac rhythms</a> in marine life in addition to causing tumors and reproductive abnormalities. </p>
<p>Earlier this year, the <span class="caps">BOEM</span> <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html">leased 72 million</a> acres in the Gulf for drilling, and the upcoming leases will bring that to a grand total of 112 million acres in just the first three months of this year. The federal government has pulled in <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html">more than $1 billion</a> from Gulf drilling lease sales this year.</p>
<p>And even though they are responsible for the current disaster taking place beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, <span class="caps">BP</span> wants in on the leasing action. <span class="caps">BP</span>'s ability to bid on federal contracts in the Gulf was suspended in late 2012 after the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-ag-1369.html">company agreed to plead guilty to charges of manslaughter, environmental crime, and obstruction of Congress</a>. But time heals all wounds, and <span class="caps">BP</span> America chairman John Minge <a href="http://www.wwltv.com/news/BP-America-prez-getting-closer-to-EPA-agreement-246211261.html">says that his group is very close to making a deal with the <span class="caps">EPA</span></a> that would once again allow them to buy new drilling leases in the Gulf. </p>
<p>The decision to lease tens of millions of acres in the Gulf next month — on top of the tens of millions that have already been sold this year — is proof that the Obama administration has abandoned its “all of the above” energy policies, and instead pursued policies which greatly benefit the dirty energy industry while leaving the American public and the environment at an unnecessary and severe risk.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1286">oil</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/6499">Drilling</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5087">Gulf of Mexico</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1002">bp</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2702">obama</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5693">Policy</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5014">deepwater horizon</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/11383">ecosystem</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/13287">Damage</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/science">Science</a></div></div></div>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000Farron Cousins7875 at http://www.desmogblog.comNorthern Gateway Pipeline Hearing Exposes Gaps in Enbridge Evidencehttp://www.desmogblog.com/2012/12/11/northern-gateway-pipeline-hearing-exposes-gaps-enbridge-evidence
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/Picture%2010.png?itok=5ohnsnld" width="200" height="130" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It looks like <a href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/petition-opposing-enbridges-missing-islands-video-delivered">islands</a> aren't the only thing Enbridge overlooks these days.</p>
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A <a href="http://forestethics.org//sites/forestethics.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FE-JRP-briefingnote-Dec2012.pdf">report</a> released today by ForestEthics Advocacy summarizes all of the information missing from Enbridge evidence brought before the Joint Review Panel in the <a href="http://www.northerngateway.ca/">Northern Gateway Pipeline</a> hearing. The ongoing hearings, which began in September, address the proposed project's economics, construction plans, operations, environmental impacts, risks to marine life and First Nations' rights.</div>
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However ForestEthics suggests the evidence submitted by Enbridge is far from comprehensive. In fact, the company has “a frightening number of gaps in its information that won't be prepared until after approval is granted” to the project, says the <a href="http://forestethics.org//sites/forestethics.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FE-JRP-briefingnote-Dec2012.pdf">report</a>.</div>
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Below is an abridged version of <a href="http://forestethics.org//sites/forestethics.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FE-JRP-briefingnote-Dec2012.pdf">ForestEthics' Pipelines and Promises</a>, which outlines the evidence Enbridge has so far failed to submit to the Northern Gateway hearings:</div>
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1. <strong>Oil Spill Response</strong>: Although Northern Gateway Pipelines president John Carruthers said his company would respond to questions regarding “world-class emergency preparedness and response capability” for the Northern Gateway Pipeline, no details regarding spill-response or prevention have been submitted for review at the hearing. </div>
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During cross-examination, all Enbridge could say was “we have a lot of work to do.” Representatives admit that no detailed oil-spill response plan will be submitted until six months before the pipeline is operational. </div>
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2: <strong>Terrain Hazard Assessment</strong>: When the Province of <span class="caps">B.C.</span> cross-examined Enbridge, it became clear that the company had left out pertinent information regarding clay sedimentation - which is known for instability - along the proposed pipeline route. Enbridge representative Ray Doering stated that “there is a substantial amount of additional geotechnical work…that needs to be undertaken to further inform the risk analysis and the geohazard risk analysis.”</div>
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3. <strong>Leak Detection</strong>: What size leak will be detectable along the pipeline route is still unknown to Enbridge. Despite promising “world-class” leak detection, Enbridge has yet to finalize detection engineering and will only do so after the project is approved.</div>
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4.<strong> Insurance Coverage</strong>: According to Enbridge it is too early to say what kind of insurance coverage the company will have to cover costs in the event of a spill. According to ForestEthics Advocacy, “Enbridge was asked to provide an estimated premium for $250 million in general liability coverage” even though the costs for spill cleanup in Michigan - where an Enbridge pipeline leaked over 100 million gallons into a river - has exceeded $800 million making it the most costly onshore cleanup in American history.</div>
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5.<strong> Demand and Toll Rates</strong>: Northern Gateway president John Carruthers told the panel that the cost to transport bitumen through the pipeline will not be determined until after the project is approved. That means arguments based on demand for the project do not rest on known or reliable data. </div>
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6. <strong>Tax Revenue</strong>: Enbridge played up the economic benefits to government in their cost-benefit analysis of the Northern Gateway project while ignoring the costs to governments. </div>
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7. <strong>Local Labour</strong>: Enbridge admitted that workers will not necessairly be locally sourced during construction, especially when past workers can be brought in from other regions, to fill First Nations' quotas. </div>
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9. <strong>Stream Flows for River Crossings</strong>: Enbridge can't say what kind of variability they will see in stream flow along the pipeline route because the company won't look at the behaviour of bitumen spills in rivers until…you guessed it: after the project is approved.</div>
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10. <strong>Seasonal Disruption of Fish Habitat</strong>: Details regarding fish habitat and the seasonal use of streams by fish won't be considered until after the project is approved. Enbridge did say that they will provide a spill response plan specially designed for salmon habitat, but not until a spill occurs, because the company plans on handling such instances on a “spill-case-by-spill-case-basis.”</div>
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11. <strong>Environmental Baseline Studies</strong>: Enbridge's research regarding environmental damage - and its mitigation - will happen once the project is approved during its planning and engineering phase.</div>
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12. <strong>Pipeline Routing</strong>: Enbridge will not say exactly where it will construct the pipeline, because detailed engineering will not occur until the the project is approved. For that reason, Enbridge cannot be questioned on the specific dangers the pipeline will pose to waterways.</div>
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13.<strong> Clore and Hoult Tunnels</strong>: These two tunnels are planned to help the pipeline avoid unstable sections of the Coast Mountains but no geohazard assessment has been performed for either. </div>
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14. <strong>Pipeline Access</strong>: Enbridge doesn't know how it will get to leaks along remote segments of the pipeline or which access roads will be consistently maintained for use. The company also does not know if helicopters will be available along the route or if seasonal conditions - like ice - might affect spill response.</div>
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ForestEthics Advocacy adds that this list is not comprehensive and that Enbridge has failed to provide crucial information regarding the Northern Gateway Pipeline in other instances. </div>
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“Enbridge and its experts have also admitted to the need for more research on the endangered Telkwa caribou herd, rare plants along power line easements, water crossing over salmon, trout and sturgeon habitat, etc. etc. Much of Enbridge's testimony over the past two months has involved asking for the public's trust. </div>
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But how can First Nations and residents of Northern British Columbia, so reliant on healthy watersheds and the coast, really trust this company that is unable, despite its massive budget, to answer basic, fundamental questions?”</div>
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According to ForestEthics, Enbridge has lobbied the federal government 145 times since 2008 in an effort to “streamline the environmental assessment process and make changes to [Department of Fisheries and Oceans] and Transport Canada regulations.”</div>
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The pipeline hearings are set to continue through December 18 in Prince Rupert. In the new year additional hearings are set to take place in Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna and will conclude in Prince Rupert in May. <br /><br />
Read ForestEthics Advocacy's report, <a href="http://forestethics.org//sites/forestethics.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FE-JRP-briefingnote-Dec2012.pdf">Pipelines and Promises</a> [<span class="caps">PDF</span>] for more information.</div>
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